Ray Evans

Ray Evans

Credentials

Background

Ray Evans is an office-holder and co-founder of numerous Australian front groups and right wing think-tanks. He is President of the HR Nicholls Society, Secretary of the Bennelong Society, Treasurer of the Samuel Griffith Society, and the Secretary and main contact for the Lavoisier Group[1] since 2000. He has “written extensively on the global warming issue” at Lavoisier. [2]

According to one profile (PDF[2]), Between 1982 and 2001 Evans worked with the Western Mining Corporation (WMC[3]) as an Executive Officer, during which time he was a close associate of WMCCEO Hugh Morgan. “My role was to engage in the culture wars and provide him with feedback,” Evans says of his work for Morgan[4]. Together with Morgan, he helped found the HR Nicholls Society in 1985.

Evans continues to be a WMC consultant.

Stance on Climate Change

“The global warming scam has been, arguably, the most extraordinary example of scientific fraud in the post-War period. So many people, and institutions, have been caught up in the web of deceit, master-minded by environmental activists working through NGOs and their manipulation of the IPCC processes, that the integrity of Western science is seriously at risk.” [4]

Key Quotes

“If Kyoto is brought into effect the economic dislocation which must follow its implementation will be unprecedented in modern times. It will be equivalent to the famines of the early 19th Century in its disruptive power (except that the famines were followed by good seasons).” [5]

“Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States.” [6]

“…astro-physicists who study sunspot behaviour predict that the next 25–50 years could be a cool period similar to the Dalton Minimum of the 1790s-1820s.”

“…increasing atmospheric concentrations beyond current levels
will have no discernible effect on global temperatures.”

In January, 2006, Evans wrote a similar pamphlet titled Nine Lies About Global Warming where he “sought to summarise for the lay reader the state of the debate about increasing
atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.”

Affiliations

In an ABC Radio interview[9], Clive Hamilton, director of the Australia Institute[10], described Evans as “responsible for establishing the Lavoisier Group as well as a number of right-wing organisations, the H.R. Nichols Society, the Benelong Society, the Samuel Griffith Society, all of which he was either President of Treasurer; they often shared the same post office box.”

Publications

According to his profile at On Line Opinion[18], Evans has published in fields including environmentalism, Indigenous peoples' movements, and economic and political issues affecting the mining industry.

According to a search of Google Scholar, Evans has not published any articles in peer reviewed journals on the subject of climate. He has, however, published numerous articles through the Lavoisier Group[1].